Jackie,
1. Not sure why
you're sending this message to WEDI's security list server rather than, say,
business, transactions, and/or codesets. But since you did
...
2. The current
HIPAA Electronic Transactions regulations don't call for HCPCS drugs and
biologics codes to become NDC codes. Rather, the regulations call for
ceasing all use of HCPCS codes for drugs and biologics, and only using NDC
codes. And therein lies a huge problem.
3. HCPCS drugs and
biologics codes do not match to NDC codes; particularly in settings other than
Retail Pharmacy.
4. As a
consequence, the 5/31/2002 "Modifications to Standards for Electronic
Transactions and Code Sets" NPRM
(a) proposed that
NDC codes be used only in Retail Pharmacy transactions,
(b) tentatively
eliminated all HIPAA codes standards for drugs and biologics outside of
Retail Pharmacy transactions, and
(c) asked for
public comments on what drugs and biologics codes standards -- perhaps
HCPCS -- should be used in transactions outside of the Retail Pharmacy
setting.
[Note: The comment period on
this NPRM closed on 1 July.]
5. So, to answer
your real question ... nobody really knows right now! Do you, perchance,
know one or more NDC codes for thallous chloride or other radiological
'injectables'?
Don't know if the above helps or not,
but that's the way it is, Friday, 12 July 2002.
Dave
Feinberg
Rensis
Corporation [A Consulting Company]
206-617-1717
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Title: NDC CODE STANDARDS
- NDC CODE STANDARDS Jackie Selva
- RE: NDC Code Standards David A. Feinberg, C.D.P.
- RE: NDC Code Standards Troidl, Walt